The FINANCIAL — Ortho Clinical Diagnostics announced the availability of the Avioq HTLV-I/II Microelisa System assay, a new test developed in partnership with Avioq, Inc. to screen blood and organ donations for antibodies to human T-lymphotropic virus type I and II.
Screening for antibodies to HTLV-I/II is required by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the nearly 16 million blood donations collected in...

by Caroline Helwick
San Francisco—New-generation stool DNA testing for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening offers “extraordinarily” high detection rates for cancers and precancers that are likely to progress, said David Ahlquist, MD, professor of medicine, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., who helped develop this approach and presented recent findings at the 2012 American...

Sydney: Four new anti-cancer compounds have shown promise in inhibiting the growth of tumours, according to a new approach.
Jason Smith, doing his M.Phil. in biomolecular sciences from Macquarie University, combined existing knowledge of an enzyme with computational chemistry approach to identify novel (cancer) inhibitors.
The enzyme (indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase) has generated excitement amongst researchers due to its...

Scientists report on the development of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based method forscreening the metabolomic response of drug-treated mammalian cells to drug therapy. TheSanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Rady Children’s Hospital investigators, say the highly sensitive, fast, and simple method is carried out in 96-well format, and could have particular utility as a method for high-throughput primary...

COLLEGE STATION – A powerful topical preventative for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could be a step closer to clinical trials, thanks to a newly discovered molecular compound that research at Texas A&M University and the Scripps Research Institute shows dissolves the virus on contact.
The ability of the synthetic compound known as “PD 404,182” to break apart the AIDS-causing virus before it can...